Change & Business Improvement Manager

Change & Business Improvement Manager
Location: Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bristol, Carlisle, Cardiff, Chelmsford, Crewe, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Bootle, Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber, Bedford, East of England, Newcastle upon Tyne, Keyworth, Norwich, Plymouth, Basingstoke, Limpsfield, Sheffield, Carmarthen, Ashford, York (with occasional travel and overnight stays)
About Us
The Health and Safety Executive is Britain’s national regulator for workplace health and safety. We’re dedicated to protecting people and places, ensuring everyone can lead safer and healthier lives at work.
We are now looking for two Change & Business Improvement Managers to join our team on a full-time basis. One role is permanent, and the other is a fixed-term contract until the end of March 2025, with the possibility of an extension or a permanent position. Part-time hours are available for this role, for applicants who can commit to working a minimum of 30 hours per week.
The Benefits
- Salary of up to £60,818 per annum
- 25 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays and Civil Service privilege leave
- Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27.1%
- Flexible working options
- Family-friendly policies and working hours
- Competitive parental leave benefits
- Learning and development tailored to your role
This is a brilliant opportunity for a high-calibre individual with experience in a similar role and a background of implementing new operating models, business designs and operational ways of working to join our essential organisation.
You’ll have the chance to lead on an ambitious roadmap of change that is enabling us to deliver our ten-year strategy, enabling us to continue to improve workplace safety and protect workers across Britain.
What’s more, with options for full-time or part-time hours and a hybrid working model, you'll have the autonomy to structure your schedule in a way that suits your lifestyle and enhances your work-life balance.
So, if you’re ready to embark on a rewarding career journey where your skills, passion and expertise will help shape the future of workplace health and safety, then apply today!
The Role
As our Change & Business Improvement Manager, you will play a key role in the design and delivery of major digital and business transformation initiatives, projects and programmes.
Working alongside Digital, Data and Technology professionals and subject matter experts, you will lead on shaping, specifying and delivering end-to-end operational processes, user-facing digital services and internal systems.
You’ll act as the Change Leader across the organisation, delivering significant changes, improving our regulatory effectiveness, increasing operational efficiency and driving better experiences for the public and our staff.
Additionally, you will:
- Create key business and technology design artefacts
- Lead stakeholder management activities
- Identify and develop solutions to address pain points in achieving business value
- Line manage, mentor and develop our team of business analysts
About You
To be considered as a Change & Business Improvement Manager, you will need:
- Experience of working in a similar role in projects / programmes
- Experience of leading on the conversion of policy / strategy into business and solution designs that result in an uplift in effectiveness, efficiency and user experience
- Experience of designing and implementing new operating models, business designs and operational ways of working in line with the principles of operational excellence
- Experience of designing and implementing new digital and technology services and solutions in line with the principles of user-centred design
- Experience of leading the creation of multiple kinds of design artefacts (both business and digital) that support the transformation journey, in line with recognised standards and methods
- Experience of leading complex stakeholder management activities that include the collaboration on, definition of and buy-in to, revised business designs and operational ways of working
- Experience of leading business change activity that maximises the successful implementation and benefits realisation of new business designs and technology solutions
The closing date for this role is Midday on Thursday 11th April 2024.
Other organisations may call this role Business Improvement Manager, Performance & Service Improvement Manager, Business Change Specialist, Change Delivery Manager, or Business Services Operations Manager.
Webrecruit and Health and Safety Executive are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.
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